Nokia's 808 PureView made a big splash and caused a fair bit of controversy at MWC this year.…
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According to the Guardian, a new Windows Phone 8 handset with the large image sensor is on the way. It will be called EOS, and it will arrive at the end of the month at the MWC trade show in Barcelona. Now the first part of that rumor is pretty ridiculous and hard to swallow. Canon has been using the EOS name for 25 years for its system of interchangeable lens cameras. It would be foolish—and possibly illegal—for Nokia to use the same name for an imaging-heavy phone.

But the second half of the rumor makes sense. Why would Nokia develop a sophisticated imaging technology only to abandon it? What's more, Nokia reps have told us that there would be big PureView news in the near future, maybe this is what they've got in mind? We sure hope so. [Guardian via FastCo]